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See also: Malo, málo, mālō, malô, mało, and ma⁴³ lo¹³

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of malolactic.

Noun

malo (uncountable)

(informal) malolactic fermentation
- 2009, Joseph LaVilla, The Wine, Beer, and Spirits Handbook:
  Allowing a wine to undergo malo also protects it from bacterial contamination later.

Etymology 2

Noun

malo (plural malos)

A Hawaiian loincloth.

Anagrams

AMLO, loma, loam, LMAO, mola, Loma, lmao, MOAL

Asturian

Adjective

malo

neuter of malu

Bariai

Noun

malo

cloth

References

Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

Cebuano

Alternative forms

mawo

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: ma‧lo

Noun

malo

(botany) the stamen

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish malo (“bad”).

Adjective

malo

bad; evil

Chichewa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɽó/

Noun

maló class 6

place

Derived terms

m'malo mwa

Dyula

Noun

malo

(uncooked) rice
(botany) rice plant, Oryza sativa

Esperanto

Etymology

From mal- +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

IPA^(key): [ˈmalo]
Rhymes: -alo
Hyphenation: mal‧o

Noun

malo (accusative singular malon, plural maloj, accusative plural malojn)

opposite

Galician

Alternative forms

mal (masculine singular, before the noun)
mao

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas)

bad
Antonym: bo

Related terms

mal

Gothic

Romanization

malō

Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌻𐍉

Italian

Etymology

From Latin malus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈma.lo/
Rhymes: -alo
Hyphenation: mà‧lo

Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural mali, feminine plural male)

(archaic) bad, evil, wicked
Synonym: cattivo

Antonym: buono
(archaic) unfit, incompetent, inadequate

Usage notes

In modern usage displaced by cattivo, but still used in some set phrases.

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

Mola, almo, lamo, mola

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish malo (“bad”).

Adjective

malo (Latin spelling)

bad
Synonym: negro

Latin

Etymology 1

From magis +‎ volō, literally "I more greatly wish for".

Alternative forms

māvolō, magis volō, uncontracted form

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmäːɫ̪oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]

Verb

mālō (present infinitive mālle, perfect active māluī); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no imperative

to prefer, want more or instead
Synonyms: antevertō, anteferō, praeoptō, praepōnō, praeferō

Conjugation

Conjugation of mālō (irregular, suppletive in the second-person singular indicative present, active only, no imperatives)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	mālō	māvīs	māvult	mālumus	māvultis	mālunt
	imperfect	mālēbam	mālēbās	mālēbat	mālēbāmus	mālēbātis	mālēbant
	future	mālam	mālēs	mālet	mālēmus	mālētis	mālent
	perfect	māluī	māluistī	māluit	māluimus	māluistis	māluērunt, māluēre
	pluperfect	mālueram	māluerās	māluerat	māluerāmus	māluerātis	māluerant
	future perfect	māluerō	mālueris	māluerit	māluerimus	mālueritis	māluerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
subjunctive		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	mālim	mālīs	mālit	mālīmus	mālītis	mālint
	imperfect	māllem	māllēs	māllet	māllēmus	māllētis	māllent
	perfect	māluerim	māluerīs	māluerit	māluerīmus	māluerītis	māluerint
	pluperfect	māluissem	māluissēs	māluisset	māluissēmus	māluissētis	māluissent
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		mālle	māluisse	—	—	—	—
participles		mālēns	—	—	—	—	—

Descendants

>? Old French: maloir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of malus (“bad, evil”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈma.loː/, [ˈmäɫ̪oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]

Adjective

malō

masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of malus

Etymology 3

Inflected form of mālus (“apple tree”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.loː/, [ˈmäːɫ̪oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.lo/, [ˈmäːlo]

Noun

mālō

dative/ablative singular of mālus

References

“malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“malo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
malo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
malo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
- (ambiguous) to be hard pressed by misfortune: malis urgeri
- (ambiguous) moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
- (ambiguous) to take a thing in good (bad) part: in bonam (malam) partem accipere aliquid

Middle English

Noun

malo

Alternative form of malwe

Nafaanra

Etymology

From areal word. Compare Dyula malo, Ewe mɔlu, Wolof malo.

Noun

malo

rice

Samoan

Noun

malo

government

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mâlo/
Hyphenation: ma‧lo

Adverb

mȁlo (Cyrillic spelling ма̏ло) (+ genitive case)

little, few, some
slightly, somewhat, vaguely (to a small but perceptible degree)
barely, hardly (anyone, anywhere)

Adjective

malo

neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of mal

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmalɔ]

Participle

malo

neuter singular l-participle of mať

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /màːlɔ/
Hyphenation: ma‧lo

Adverb

málo (comparative mȁnj, superlative nȁjmȁnj)

(countable) few
(uncountable) little
a little
hardly (anyone, anywhere)

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin malus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmalo/ [ˈma.lo]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -alo
Syllabification: ma‧lo

Adjective

malo (feminine mala, masculine plural malos, feminine plural malas, superlative malísimo or pésimo)

bad
Antonym: bueno
evil, mean
Antonym: bueno
sick
Antonyms: aliviado, mejorado

Declension

Comparative: peor
Superlatives: malísimo, pésimo

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Chavacano: malo
Papiamentu: malu
→⇒ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: mölojti̱c

Noun

malo m (plural malos, feminine mala, feminine plural malas)

bad guy; baddie; bad boy; bad person

Derived terms

más lento que el caballo del malo

Ternate

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈma.lo]

Verb

malo

(impersonal) to not exist
bira malo ― there is no rice/rice does not exist

ngogu malo toma hito ― there is no food in the kitchen
(impersonal) to not have
ngori pipi malo ― I have no money (literally, “there is no money of mine”)
(intransitive) to not exist
nyao imalo toma hito ― there is no fish in the kitchen

mina momalo toma fala ― she is not at home

Usage notes

This word negates the verb of existence sema. In impersonal usage (unlike sema), malo generally follows the object of the sentence; in intransitive usage, malo follows the subject and precedes the object. To negate the transitive usage of sema, the impersonal form of malo is used.

Conjugation

Conjugation of malo
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tomalo	fomalo	mimalo
2nd	nomalo	nimalo
3rd	Masculine	omalo	imalo, yomalo^†
Feminine	momalo
Neuter	imalo
† - archaic

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Venda

Numeral

malo

eight

Wolio

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *maləm (“night, darkness”), most likely via borrowing from a Bungku–Tolaki language.

Noun

malo

night

References

Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris

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-{{also|Malo|málo|mālō|mało|mało-|мало}}
+{{also|malo|Malo|málo|mālō|malô|mało|ma⁴³ lo¹³}}
 ==English==
@@ Line 22: / Line 22: @@
 ===Anagrams===
-* {{anagrams|en|a=almo|AMLO|LMAO|lmao|loam|loma|mola}}
+* {{anagrams|en|a=almo|AMLO|loma|loam|LMAO|mola|Loma|lmao|MOAL}}
+{{C|en|Clothing}}
 ==Asturian==
@@ Line 57: / Line 59: @@
 ===Etymology===
-From {{bor|cbk|es|malo|t=bad}}.
+{{inh+|cbk|es|malo|t=bad}}.
 ===Adjective===
-{{head|cbk|adjective}}
+{{cbk-adj}}
 # [[bad]]; [[evil]]
@@ Line 83: / Line 85: @@
 # (uncooked) [[rice]]
-# {{lb|dyu|botany}} [[rice plant]], [[Oryza sativa]]
+# {{lb|dyu|botany}} [[rice plant]], {{taxfmt|Oryza sativa|species}}
 ====See also====
@@ Line 97: / Line 99: @@
 * {{l|dyu|ɲɛɲɛkini}}
-[[Category:dyu:Botany]]
+{{C|dyu|Botany}}
 ==Esperanto==
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 ===Pronunciation===
-* {{audio|eo|LL-Q143 (epo)-Robin van der Vliet-malo.wav|Audio}}
+* {{audio|eo|LL-Q143 (epo)-Robin van der Vliet-malo.wav}}
 {{eo-IPA|mal|o}}
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 ===Alternative forms===
-* {{alter|gl|mal||masculine singular|before the noun}}
+* {{alt|gl|mal||masculine singular|before the noun}}
-* {{alter|gl|mao}}
+* {{alt|gl|mao}}
 ===Etymology===
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 ===Adjective===
-{{gl-adj|f=mala}}
+{{gl-adj}}
 # [[bad]]
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 ====Derived terms====
+{{col-auto|it
-* {{l|it|malalingua}}
+|malaffare
-* {{l|it|malamente}}
+|malalingua
+|malamente
+|malasanità
+|malaugurio
+|malavita
+|malcostume
+|malessere
+|malocchio}}
 ====Related terms====
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 ===Adjective===
 {{lad-adj}}
 # [[bad]]
 #: {{syn|lad|negro}}
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 ====Alternative forms====
-* {{alter|la|māvolō||uncontracted form}}
+* {{alter|la|māvolō|magis volō}}, uncontracted form
 ====Pronunciation====
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 {{la-verb|irreg|mālō}}
-# I [[prefer]], [[want]] more or instead
+# to [[prefer]], [[want]] more or instead
 #: {{syn|la|antevertō|anteferō|praeoptō|praepōnō|praeferō}}
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 # {{alt form|enm|malwe}}
+==Nafaanra==
+===Etymology===
+From areal word. Compare {{cog|dyu|malo}}, {{cog|ee|mɔlu}}, {{cog|wo|malo}}.
+===Noun===
+{{head|nfr|noun}}
+# [[rice]]
+{{c|nfr|Grains}}
 ==Samoan==
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 ===Further reading===
-* {{R:sl:Fran}}
+{{R:sl:FR}}
 ==Spanish==
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 ===Adjective===
-{{es-adj}}
+{{es-adj|sup=malísimo|sup2=pésimo}}
 # [[bad]]
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 ====Derived terms====
 {{col-auto|es
+|a la mala
+|a mala verdad
+|a malas penas
 |alfil malo
+|andar en malos pasos
 |bola mala
 |culo de mal asiento
 |dar mala espina
 |dar un mal paso
+|de mal abrigo
+|de mal aire
+|de mal arte
 |de mal en peor
+|de mal grado
+|de mal tono
+|de mal vivir
+|de mala digestión
 |de mala muerte
+|de mala vida
 |de malas
+|en hora mala
+|en mala hora
 |lo malo es que
 |mala conciencia
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 |más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer
 |poli bueno poli malo
+|poner mala voz
 |por la mala|por las malas|por malas
 |por las buenas o por las malas
 |por las malas o por las buenas
-|soplan malos vientos}}
+|soplan malos vientos
+|tener mala cabeza}}
 ====Related terms====
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 ==Wolio==
+===Etymology===
 From {{der|wlo|poz-pro|*maləm|t=night, darkness}}, most likely via borrowing from a [[w:Bungku–Tolaki languages|Bungku–Tolaki]] language.
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 ===References===
-* {{cite book|last=Anceaux|first=Johannes C.|year=1987|title=Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia)|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Foris}}
+* {{cite-book|last=Anceaux|first=Johannes C.|year=1987|title=Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia)|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Foris}}